Greetings!
Finally, there was a reason we brought our raincoats and umbrellas. The weather report said that we were in for a sprinkle, and it turned out to be much more. Cold hands juggling umbrellas and cameras, and growing puddles to avoid getting wet feet.
After a welcoming briefing after breakfast, Ella (our local guide) took us on a walking tour of the Lithuanian capital. The people whose country stretched from the Baltics to the Black Sea now govern a small European remnant north of Belarus and Poland. Founded in 1579, when Jesuits were invited to fight against Catholic reformers by establishing the first (and now largest) university in Europe, it's the
Vilnius University. There, we listened to Arturus, tellus about life as a young person in Vilnius.
After lunch in a local restaurant, the group headed off in different directions for some individual exploration before meeting back at the hotel in the late afternoon. Our main tour guide, Paulius, then led us to the
Republic of Uzupis, a kind of bohemian artist community founded one April Fools Day and maintaining a light-hearted approach to independence and anti-establishment status ever since.
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